DM
Appearance
DM, Dm, dm, or D.M. may stand for:
Academic titles and postnominals
[edit]- Doctor of Management, an academic management degree
- Doctor of Music, an academic music-performance degree, also known as DMA
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Broadcasting
[edit]- Danger Mouse (TV series), a British animated television series
- WWDM, a radio station licensed to Sumter, South Carolina, United States
Gaming
[edit]- Deathmatch (video games), a gameplay mode integrated into first-person shooter computer games
- Dungeon Master, the game designer, storyteller and referee in Dungeons & Dragons
Music
[edit]- D minor, a minor scale or chord
- DM (album), 2017, by Mexican singer Dulce María
- "DM" (song), 2022, by fromis_9
- Dance marathon, a multiple-day charity event on U.S. college campuses
- Depeche Mode, an English synthpop band formed in 1980
- Drum major (marching band), the leader of a marching band
- Death Metal, an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music
Social media
[edit]- Digital marketing
- Private message (also direct message or dm)
In business and economics
[edit]- Deutsche Mark (1948–2002), the former currency of Germany (and West Germany)
- East German mark (1951–1990)
Companies and products
[edit]- Detroit and Mackinac Railway
- dm-drogerie markt, a German drugstore chain
- Dr. Martens, a brand of boots
- DM, IATA code of Arajet
- DM, then IATA code of Maersk Air, a former Danish airline which operated from 1969 until 2005
Military
[edit]- Designated marksman, a soldier fulfilling the marksman role in an infantry squad
- Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Defense Munitions, sites are prefixed DM
- A US Navy hull classification symbol: Light minelayer (DM)
Places
[edit]- Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, US
- Des Moines, Iowa, the state capital
- Dominica, an island nation in the Caribbean Sea (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code: DM)
Science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]Computing
[edit]- .dm, Dominica's top-level Internet domain
- Dimensional modeling, a set of techniques and concepts used in data warehouse design
Software
[edit]- Display Manager, a window system for Domain/OS on Apollo/Domain workstations
- Device mapper, a component of the Linux kernel that supports logical volume management
- X display manager, a graphical login manager
Medicine
[edit]- Degenerative myelopathy, a condition in dogs affecting the spinal cord
- Diabetes mellitus, a disease characterized by high blood sugar
- Difference due to memory, a neural activity effect
- Diminished motivation, a condition characterized by lack of motivation
- Double minute, fragments of extrachromosomal DNA in human tumors
- Myotonic dystrophy (DM-1/2/3), a chronic muscle-wasting disease
- n-Decyl β-D-Maltopyranoside, a maltoside detergent used when purifying membrane proteins
- Dermatomyositis, an inflammatory systemic disorder affecting the skin, muscles, and other organs
Physics
[edit]- Dark matter, in cosmology, hypothetical non-luminous matter
- Deformable mirror
- Dispersion measure, the amount of dispersion of radio waves by interstellar medium
Units of length
[edit]- Decimetre (
dm
), equal to ten centimetres - Decametre (sometimes
Dm
), equal to ten metres - Data mile (
DM
), in radar, equal to 6000 feet
Other uses in science, technology and mathematics
[edit]- Adamsite, a chemical agent used in riot control
- Differential Manchester encoding
- Distributed morphology, a theoretical framework in linguistics
Sports and recreation
[edit]- Dallas Mavericks, an NBA team
- Danske Mesterskaber, the Danish Athletics Championships
- Defensive midfielder, an association football position
- Divemaster, in scuba diving
- Dungeon monitor, a safety role in BDSM
Other uses
[edit]- De minimis, a Latin legal term
- Diis Manibus, a Latin epitaphial acronym
- SJ Dm3, and Dm, Swedish locomotives
- District magistrate, senior local role in the Indian Administrative Service
- Des Moines, Iowa